Ed Cottrell

  • Cereblitz Cart is Coming: A Shopping Cart for Customizable Products

    I am very excited to announce the formation of Cereblitz LLC and, with it, the upcoming launch of Cereblitz Cart! Cereblitz Cart is the First Cart Available to the Public that Supports Truly Customizable Products Cereblitz Cart is a completely new take on the traditional ecommerce model: you can sell absolutely anything with it. Traditional carts limit…

  • A good reminder: Hackers are out there

    A site I occasionally help out with was on the receiving end of a brute-force attack today. Nothing subtle about it: a single IP address in Europe sent nearly 50,000 attempts to log in using a single user account. Hackers are out there, people, and they are persistent. For securing WordPress sites, I highly recommend…

  • TAMES Search Bookmarklet for Searching Texas Cases

    I have created a little bookmarklet for searching for Texas cases in the Courts of Appeals and Supreme Court. A bookmarklet, if you’re not familiar with that term, is a “smart bookmark” that does some action when you use it. It’s actually a little program, so you can do pretty handy things with bookmarklets. How…

  • Terrible Experience with Auslogics

    I just had a terrible experience with Auslogics. If you are not familiar with them, they make an excellent tool for defragmenting hard drives (faster and better than the Windows native tools) (edit:) a popular but possibly malware-ridden disk defragmenter.1 They also make a product called BoostSpeed, which cleans up various things on computers that…

  • Ebooks Community on Stack Exchange

    Stack Exchange has launched (in beta) a wonderful new community at ebooks.stackexchange.com. It’s a fantastic and free resource for all questions related to ebooks – reading, writing, publishing, buying, selling, and lending. Anyone can ask a question, anyone can answer, and the best questions and answers get voted to the top. I encourage you to…